Corn-popper.



0. S. RYERSON.

CORN POPPER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1912.

1,064,01 1. Patented June 10,1913.

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OSCAR S. RYERSON, 0F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORN-POPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 10, 1913.

Application filed March 20, 1912. Serial No. 684,983.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Osoan S. Bronson, a subject of the King of England, and a resident of \Vorcester, in the county of \Vorcester and State of hlassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in loin-Poppers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to corn-peppers and its object is to improve the constriwtion thereof in the manner hereinafter set forth.

My invention will be described in connection with the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved corn-popper, Fig. 2 is a side view thereof and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view, partly in section, taken on the line in Fig. 1.

In the particular drawings selected for more fully disclosing my invention, 1 represents the body portion of the corn-popper formed of wire mesh, and 2 is the cover thereof which, as shown, may be similarly coi'istructed of Wire mesh, or, if preferred, may be of sheet metal. The body portion may be strengthened by the stay-wires i"), which as shown, are secured at one end to the screw It and extend diagonally down the rear end andv across the bottom of the body portion, terminating at their other end in the i'nctallic binding 4. The cover 2 is hinged to the wire loops 5 secured in the metallic binding at the rear end of the device. The upper edges of the body are reinforced by the corrugated metallic binding l; which consists of a folded metal strip compressed on the wire mesh. This binding is corrugated for the purpose of strengthening the body portion. The edges of the cover, whether ol wire mesh or sheet metal, are provided with similar corrugated metallic binding (3 provided with a down-turned flange 7 adapted to fit over the upper edges of the body portion. As shown in Fig. 3, said flange extends below the upper edges of the body portion and fits against the outer faces thereof.

\Vhen the cover is closed, a latch S of: spring wire secured to the front oil? the body may be employed to keep the same in place, so that the upper edges of the body portion are held securely in the groove 'lformed in the corrugated edge of the cover. l'lereto'tore devices of this character have been provided with hinged covers which merely rest over the upper edges of the body and which do not perform the function of strengthening the structure. i llowever, by eorrugating the metallic binding and providing the cover binding with the coo 'ierating downwardly extending flange 7 above relerred to, the device which being made oil. wire mesh is naturally somewhat elastic, is thereby made practically as rigid as though constructed of solid material.

It will be understood that various changes may be made in the particular device described and illustrated without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

A corn pepper having a dislrshaped body portion formed ol. wire mesh, a flat cover hinged thereto, a binding lior the upper edges of the body portion comprising a strip of sheet metal 'lolded over upon itself and compressed on the wire mesh, said folded strip being Iluted or corrugatial in a direction parallel with its length and provided above such corrugation with an upstanding rim. and the cover having a sheet metal binding similarly secured to the edges thereof, said last mentioned binding having a groove into which the upper edge of said rim fits, and also being provided with a peripheral, downwardly extending flange adapted to overlap and snugly enibrace said rim, whereby the rigidity of the structure is increased.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name this {it day of Feb. 1912.

OSCAR S. jltYllltSON. lVit n esses Lnnor l SrnNNno, MARY U. i'tssnn'm.

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